traditional concepts of achievement. At a time when achieving material success (and even security) became increasingly difficult for a preponderance of Americans, and during a period when traditional moral values were in flux, the idea of life as a work of art, however vaguely defined, offered a sense of creative possibility. Simultaneously, the id

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La question de la beauté est secondaire en peinture, les grands peintres du passé étaient considérés comme tels lorsqu'ils avaient développé du monde une vision à la fois cohérente et innovante ; ce qui signifie qu'ils peignaient toujours de la même manière, qu'ils utilisaient toujours la même méthode, les mêmes modes opératoires pour transformer l

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A world in which artists think like entrepreneurs, he writes in the Atlantic, is one where “You’re a musician and a photographer and a poet; a storyteller and a dancer and a designer ... which means that you haven’t got time for your 10,000 hours in any of your chosen media. But technique or expertise is not the point. The point is versatility. Lik... See more

The beauty of a notebook is that it indulges provisional thoughts, half-finished ideas, unpolished sketches, and drafts for treatises not yet refined. That, too, suited Leonardo’s leaps of the imagination, in which brilliance was often unfettered by diligence or discipline. He occasionally declared an intent to organize and refine his notebook jott

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